Was wandering through the woods in my favourite Fife village on Sunday, and came across this structure. Clearly built by kids, it's great to see at least some of them aren't glued to their phones. It's simple but effective.
As a kid we used to string together a bunch of appliance boxes to form a tunnel/maze/fort, no where near as elaborate as the above but great fun.. at least till it rained.
The child gang I was in (about 8 years old) decided one day to make a shelter - We all lived backing onto the bush in Hobart (Tasmania) We stripped reeds to make twine and tied a frame that we then laid/tied branches over it until the light no longer shone through...We blew ourselves away at how good it was! Even some residents who saw it came over and told us how awesome it was... This is the closest I could find on the net to it. Ours was more dome like...
Aye, nothing me and the gang ever built was as sophisticated as that beauty in the OP. There's a fair bit of thought and planning went into that. We just made it up as we went along usually.
Same with us Gordon...our gang was aged 5 - 11...about 8 of us...no adults (as usual - we lived in a single parent village - A rough group getting into trouble on a daily basis) - I can't remember the brains behind the design...the young ones made the twine, the older kids cut the saplings, made a dome and then covered it. Viola! As I said, we were impressed by ourselves...
Irish travellers used to make something very similar - covered with a tarpaulin - the one in the OP looks like it might have been one of these.
That's interesting. Absolutely nowhere to park vehicles within a radius of several hundred yards though.
